Answers to 29 May Puzzles
JUMBO PUZZLE across 1 Tied up 5 Plump 8 Scuttled 14 Frown 15 Off camera 16 Incline 17 Iran 18 Bodice 19 Ivory 20 Needy 22 Exertion 23 Active 25 Locate 28 After you 30 In a way 31 Ragged 35 Boasted 37 Tabby 39 Iced 40 Tint
41 Crow 42 Mind 43 Dwarf 45 So-and-so 48 Nursed 49 Amused 51 Recovery 55 Baffle 57 Smooth 58 Reaching 62 Meter 63 Usher 64 Frisky 65 Fawn
67 Linking 68 Pig-headed 69 Swiss 70 Barged in 71 Dodgy 72 Nearer
down 2 Isolate 3 Done 4 Photocopy 5 Puffin 6 Usage 7 Preliminary 8 Soap opera 9 Unicycle 10 Technician 11 Evident 12 Officer 13 Beryl 21 At rest 24 Climb 26 Dusted 27 Edition 29 Flavour 32 Grinder 33 Abscond 34 Less 36 Drip 38 Bow 39 Inform 43 Discouraged 44 Audit 46 Advice 47 Performing 50 Misshapen 52 Checked in 53 Debugged 54 Agonise 56 Antenna 59 Imagine 60 Smell 61 Midday 64 Field 66 Asia. answer: Nail polish
PUZZLE across 1 Massive 5 Margate 10 Etna 11 Overlooked 12 Irrigate 13 Ticker
14 Yawn 15 Accredited 17 Throughout 19 Tact 20 Usable 22 Stake-out 24 Restrained 25 Tear 26 Stollen 27 Ordered down 2 Aftermath 3 Sea lion
4 Viola 6 Allotment 7 Gnocchi 8 Theme 9 Level crossing 15 Aggregate 16 Encourage 18 Orbital 19 Trestle 21 Smelt 23 Alder answer: Curler
linkword Behind, Profit, Butter, School, Pretty, Tennis, Cattle, People,
Escape, Poster. answer: Toiletries
WORDWISE SOLUTION Alee, alert, alter, arete, aver, avert, earl, eater, elate, elver, ever, evert, late, later, laver, leat, leave, leaver, leer, level, lever, rare, rate, ratel, rave, ravel, raver, real, rear, reave, reel, relate, retell, reveal, revel, revert, tale, taller, tare, teal, tear, tell, teller, terra, travel, tree, vale, valet, varlet, veal, veer, veleta, vert. answer: Traveller
WORDWISE SOLUTION Deign, ding, dirge, diverge, edge, edger, edgier, egret, gender, gene, genet, genie, genre, gent, gird, gite, give, given, giver, greed, green, greet, grid, grieve, grieved, grin, grind, grit, integer, regent, reign, reigned, ridge, ring, ringed, teeing, tiger, ting, tinge, tinged, veering, verge, verged. answer: Divergent